Running faster (longer)

Jan (my husband) has always maintained that you don’t need to notch up a serious number of miles to run a marathon, but you do have to make sure you do a long run, and that you increase the length of that long run over time…. and that you run your long run at a…

Running like a 6 year-old

I unexpectedly ran the Parkrun yesterday. I ran it with with my 6-year-old son. It was a fabulous experience, and a really valuable one, too. We started off too far back in the pack, really, because we spent the first half-lap just running past people. But I had no idea how F would cope with…

Bit of a pants week…

…but the only way is up, right? I was off work most of last week with sick children. I think I must have been a bit under the weather, too, as I didn’t actually resent having to stay in bed for two days while M slept on me. So I didn’t run. Or cycle. Or…

A week to hold your loved ones close

This has been a sad and difficult week, as a friend died suddenly at the weekend. This is not the time or place to talk about it, except to say that, as if I needed reminding, I have been holding my children, and feeling grateful, and appreciating my time with them. It has also been…

Duathlon done. Didn’t come last (quite…)

Duathlon… that had once been a triathlon…. done! So the main thing is that I turned up (60 out of the 170 entrants didn’t). And the most important thing is that I completed it. The details probably don’t matter too much…. I came 90th overall, but I was the 25th female! So… quite a male-dominated…

Lanhydrock parkrun (mud, hills, beauty, and lots of smiles)

“So…. anyone who’s doing this parkrun for the first time, come and stand over here” …all but a handful of the runners followed the Race Director across the grass, coming out from under the tree, where they’d been sheltering from the rain. “The regulars have more sense. They’re all at home!” It was grey and…